Secrets of the Mega Landfill | Free Documentary

[@FreeDocumentary]

In the hills of Orange County California is the 9th largest landfill site in the U.S - the Frank R Bowerman Landfill. It’s part of an elite gang of the biggest sites in the country dubbed ‘The Million Ton Club’, due to the epic amount of waste it receives every year. As many as 750 trucks queue up to deliver thousands of tonnes every day. And it’s not as simple as just dumping it all in the ground. In this documentary, we join the army of people at the site using cutting edge technology from drones to dozens of Mega tonne machines to make it all disappear. And the stakes are high - for the business as well as the environment, as this site can rake in $70,000,000 million dollars a year. Who knew trash was that lucrative?!

[@lc285]

The documentary failed to say how many acres at this particular site?

[@cam6993]

At minute 2:10 they say 725 acre site

[@cynthcorcor126]

California is owned by the royals. Everything on it. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

[@henryweick2244]

Sewage is big money too. They truck the sewage from Los Angles and other coastal cities in California and truck it 24 hours a day 365 days a year and dump it out in the Mojave desert. And it is a stink that is un- imaginable. When I pass by this toxic sewage facility I just imagine I'm traveling by a democratic political convention.

[@donlove3741]

Who knew? Waste capitalists.

[@chadlucero]

I have been a Heavy Equipment Operator in landfills for 15 years. This is accurate representation of what goes into landfill operations. One of our struggles is wind though.

[@georgegastellum8351]

Chad I agree 100%. I worked and retired at one in San Diego for 30 years. They have a long way to go to get their green recycling up to speed, ours was certified organic by The State of California. By the time I retired I had mastered 18 different pieces of heavy equipment, my favorite machine was the Cat 16 motor grader.

[@umairrizvi]

I don't work in landfills but I can tell you that their another issue besides wind is rain and crows

[@DroneStrike1776]

When it rains, it smells. The landfill is about 5 miles from my home and sometimes the gases from the landfill when it rains smells like rotten eggs. Worst before until the mayor started issue lawsuits and wanting compensation for residence having to deal with odor. All this because the landfill was pretty corrupt, guess the Italian mob is in the trash business, welcome to Southern New England. But the state does a really good job now. The methane gas is renewed and is equivalent to power 40,000 homes. And if the landfill operators messes up, the mayor will slap them with a suit. This mayor, even though a Democrat, he's a moderate democrat and doesn't take kindly to those breaking the law or messing with the citizens, far from the progressive mayor in my old city next door. Trash all over the streets. Workers just throw bins anywhere they please, like right in the middle of the street.

[@gusrubio489]

Thanks for the work you do!

[@dandan7973]

Yea I was furious when they closed because of wind.

[@jonrutherford6852]

I can't find words to express the gratitude and admiration I feel for workers who maintain and operate our physical and societal infrastrcture, including, in no special order, medical and teaching personnel, police, firefighters, construction and engineering workers, truck drivers, and, as seen here, landfill and sanitation workers. These are my heroes. It's sad that people who make headlines and get acclaimed and make the big bucks, don't do anything as vital for our daily existence, and often work against the public good.

[@asseater1895]

🤣🤣 bruh u cringe as hell ❄️

[@a-a-ron4679]

Hey thanks. I’m a truck driver. I never thought I’d do this job. I’ve always had good jobs over the years. I’m an electrician by trade and also worked in logistics. Got tired of troubleshooting and then working in an office. I love the road and always appreciate people who recognize the importance. Thanks.

[@maybeebuzzy2265]

Just wow! Never thought a docu about landfills could be this interesting. I appreciate you showing us about the many facets of where and how our waste is handled. This should be shown in classrooms.

[@sends2aaron]

Just yeah! I just agree!

[@davidwoermansr]

Imagine when it's full it'll be part of the California hills with walking trails you can leave your trash at if you bury it

[@dontcare7086]

Imagine thinking a documentary about burying our trash in landfills that will pollute the planet for thousands of years is seen as a good thing lmfao! This isn't a solution to our problems. We are hiding it temporarily. Plastic degrades and those tarps they line the landfills with breakdown. We are already seeing they don't work as the chemicals dumped from the east palestine train crash have leaked through the EPA approved chemical tarps in the landfills they are dumping the chemicals in. These so called safe landfills are leaking hazardous chemicals in a event that is worse than Chernobyl into the ground water beneath the tarps that are supposed to stop any leaks. The media isn't covering this at all. You have to watch tiktoks of people in these towns where the chemicals are being dumped showing all the dead wildlife surrounding the landfills and the chemicals in local rivers that leaked out through the ground water. Rivers full of dead fish, forests full of dead deer, birds, squirrels, etc. Again no media coverage but thousands of private citizens are showing this daily on social media since the mainstream won't. These landfills aren't something to be proud of...

[@a-a-ron4679]

@@davidwoermansr there’s an old landfill near Virginia Beach, VA called Mt Trashmore that was converted. It’s pretty cool. Walking trails, bike trails, etc. real nice place.

[@davidwoermansr]

@@a-a-ron4679 they're all over the country soon we'll be shipping all our trash to other countries because they'll run out of old rock quarries to fill and there'll be nowhere available for them to dig a hole without hitting trash

[@user-bl5oj6jc5d]

"My hearts right here... It's in the trash.. " I feel the same

[@carlycaye90]

I love this line and also felt it deeply

[@1w561]

We need a documentary on why there was a horse in the dumpster.

[@lauramannyvlogs6675]

Yes! Poor thing, who would put a whole horse into a dumpster

[@chickey333]

Ask Don Vito Corleone... he would do it just to make a point naturally.

[@cunicularium5424]

It's gotta go somewhere if it's dead?...duh

[@lauramannyvlogs6675]

@Uzodator Quattrucci Isn’t a dumpster bigger? The ones that councils use and large shopping centres? Different to rubbish bins

[@Ryan-jl5kf]

I wonder how many people are dead in there

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

Solid Waste Engineer here. That is a *massive* landfill. But, it is much easier to operate a landfill in the West vs one in the East because of the lack of precipitation. A dry landfill = good landfill. Wet landfills are much more difficult to manage.

[@chrisosti]

Happiness is...sitting in 10 feet of leachate in a Cat Compactor...

[@trashyraccoon2615]

@@chrisosti I would love that!

[@ev3736]

I like to watch these while I do homework or doing stuff on my computer. I can’t have silent so this is informative and cool to listen to

[@MrHantz101]

I grew up on Staten Island in the 80s, which is where the Fresh Kills Landfill used to be (its still there, but closed now). Legend has it that FKL was the largest in the world, accepting the thousands of tons of garbage that NYC produced every day. It was also unfortunately located right across a broad 6-lane street from the Staten Island Mall. Upon leaving the mall on humid days, you could actually taste it.

[@erico7430]

My wife was from staten island as well at that same time, its funny when I mentioned the dump the first thing she mentioned was the mall, lmao.

[@Jeff-0621]

I worked at the leachate treatment plant. It was the biggest landfill on the east coast at 2200 acres. The landfill has been completely closed off and capped off all sections. I am happy to report smell during the summer is nearly gone. This one in California must have modeled some of the process from Staten Island such as the methane plant.

[@ericlondon2663]

Imagine all the bodies they don't find in landfills.....must be less than we fear but more than we can imagine....

[@allisonbushnell3643]

absolutely amazing landfill employees construction workers truckers etc. truly are the back bone to the USA THANK YOU TO ALL OF THEM

[@trulythedude]

theyre not gonna date you relax

[@allisonbushnell3643]

@@trulythedude lol you can always tell who has a desk job sweetheart go clean your computer screen

[@SeanBZA]

Yup, been to all 3 landfills near me, and while the one is closed, because it is full, and the other is near full, they still serve as waste transfer stations. Third one is newest, and massive, might last till next century before it gets full.

[@stephonwilliams5232]

Nah I guarantee it will be full in 10 years

[@rexsexson5349]

Always food for the brain in easy digestible documentaries. Interesting, fun, informative, and thought provoking. This channel never disappoints.

[@chadbrown5353]

We just need to turn the closed sites into recreational areas! There's so many things that could be done on one of those areas!

[@anthonyvillanueva5226]

I did not expect the falcons at all. That's gotta be one of the coolest twists to a job ever.

[@David-ik8wj]

they fly falcons at airports too.

[@AronRuttner]

I can't believe your content is free. Fabulous job as always ! Excellent production.

[@kinotikenneth8135]

My to-go KZbin channel when I want to enjoy classics. Much Love from Nairobi, Kenya.

[@FreeDocumentary]

We send a big basket full of love back 😀 and thank you for stopping by to let us know. Much appreciated

[@kinotikenneth8135]

@Robert Hamilton Suit yourself troll

[@stephenkarue770]

@Robert Hamilton you may be excused for your ignorance, iam watching this from remotest part of kenya called lodwar in Turkana.

[@YMH420s]

@@stephenkarue770 sure. I’m watching this from Mars.

[@dom2849]

@@YMH420s watching from Nairobi Kenya.

[@b-man1232]

Here's something shocking. I've been sorting and recycling for years! I was visiting with our garbage company the other day. The man straight-up told me that basically most of the recycled items go in with the NORMAL TRASH!! Evidently, other countries that buy our recycled trash aren't buying anymore??? I was beyond shocked (to say the least)!

[@michaelmaas5544]

There’s several documentaries here showing the falsehood of recycling. Very little of it actually gets recycled.

[@Whitemink32]

I’ve heard that paper and metals do get recycled but plastics not so much.

[@DecrepitBiden]

@@Whitemink32 Several reason why plastic is not recycle much. One, it's cheaper & better quality to make new plastic than recycling old plastic. Recycle plastic is only used for 1 use or very low grade quality stuff, like on playgrounds. Two, plastic is recycle some, like at Aldi grocery stores, but only if it's sorted beforehand. But yeah, pretty much everything just goes to landfill.

[@Whitemink32]

@@DecrepitBiden so paper and metals are more environmentally friendly but maybe not economically friendly. I see

[@mikegrazick1795]

This documentary gave great detail about trash and what we need to know!

[@Wreckz_Tea]

A lot of those jobs actually look pretty fun and cool

[@Socrates21stCentury]

Pretty amazing, more people should understand what happens to their trash !!!

[@idroadking]

Recently retired from the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Industry after 35 years as a Heavy Equipment Operator. I too can attest that todays landfill operations are indeed much more sophisticated than in the past. However, there is much to do with regard to educating the public with the cold hard realities of a seemingly ever increasing "disposable minded society".

[@trashyraccoon2615]

It’s not citizens that need education. It’s the corporations actually producing and manufacturing the waste

[@williekioti9425]

@@trashyraccoon2615 of course.... it is always "the other guys fault".

[@christopherrosing4473]

Free makes the best documentaries! Thanks! Cheers!

[@WaveRider1989]

This documentary is incredible. I normally skip or don't watch full video but I did here. I like how they use methane from the landfill to create electricity and recycle waste water back in to the ground.

[@mitchweber7868]

That's got to be quite the pumping power and money to pump from 450 ft down or deeper to get the water to the top

[@atriskyouthtv]

The editing is amazing and proper background music really cool respect

[@DouglasLippi]

Interesting. I thought I knew it all, but wasn't aware of the falcons, fossils, and rare plant species that need to be handled. 👍

[@draco2xx]

nobody knows it all, stop it 🙄

[@Zeevuhl]

oh so you're a know-it-all huh...

[@DouglasLippi]

@@Zeevuhl that's right. Everything is in my brain. All of it.

[@Zeevuhl]

@@DouglasLippi that's right.

[@mitchweber7868]

Guessing they only have falcons at large landfills like California? Because our landfill in salt lake is always covered in seagulls

[@naoro]

This is really what I wanted to know. Thank you for sharing this.

[@charlesgithiri0017]

Best documentaries never missed anything upcoming. 👌

[@Muskrat67]

I work in a landfill in Louisiana and the amount of trash that goes there vs what goes here is amazing same for the amount of trucks

[@andreabenz1199]

This was so interesting to learn about.

[@snakebarber]

Unexpectedly fascinating

[@corywagner9733]

Iv been working in a landfill for 7 months now before starting here, I never figured landfills get so busy it’s insane I’m actually working right now in a cat compactor

[@Abgjamil76]

Dokumentari terbaik.. Tahniah.. Terus kan dengan informasi terbaru ..salam ukhwah dari Malaysia 🙋‍♂️🇲🇾

[@captaincake4331]

The narration on this particular documentary is over the top.

[@locoluck777]

Fantastic job on the documentary. Great insights and wonderful nuggets of little known facts.

[@terranceblakely1398]

“My heart’s right here, its in the trash”

[@khawajashazahmad6520]

Great as always 👍

[@user-lx1lp5kh4j]

This probably the best documentary that I ever watched!

[@1one3_Racing]

"This is a whale vertebrae" No hun. That's a rock.

[@travismaxwell9115]

She was probably was high as a rock.

[@mitchweber7868]

I'm sorry I got to say it but that definitely sounds like a woman's job.

[@donnagomez5669]

very interesting video, I was curious to learn about this.

[@erico7430]

This video is very well done, I especially appreciate how it doesn't perpetuate the myth about us "running out of room". This "mega site" they mentioned I believe is only 750 acres. Doesn't take a math wiz to determine this is a very tiny insignificant space. Thank You well done.

[@boothj82]

Great doc! Remember Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Reuse and lastly recycle!

[@TheACIDMan1981]

Thank you have a great day

[@TheWoodsmanMilling]

I've taken a few loads to a huge landfill. When it first opened it was 4 square miles, 400 feet deep. Now it's over 1/3 of a mile high, and it's still over 2 square miles at the top.

[@darthdangervest2821]

I really really hope all the scrap metal and appliances get properly recycled instead of being buried

[@JimAllen-Persona]

I love infrastructure system analysis 😀😀

[@briantellier8093]

My father spent 30+years driving a compactor in 70s 80s and 90s. He worked his way from the bottom to the top and became superintendent. After 10 yrs he retired and then died a year after from a liver cancer that is only heard of in South Africa. He has never left Boston. No one knows what is in these pieces of trash that could be toxic to human life! I believe he would be here today had he not spent 10 hrs a day, 6 days a week for 30 years driving over toxic chemicals we have no Idea about that were driving over all day long. Good luck All!

[@mitchweber7868]

Can't you just wear a mask and it would all be fine? Serious question.

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

@@mitchweber7868 it was the 70s 80s and 90s dude, they were drinking and smoking on the job all day everyday back then from the streets pickup to the landfill. Hell 2 landfills around my way contaminated a whole section of a waterway with medical and chemical waste in the 70s-90s that’s still being cleaned up today. Mask? Lol a mask…. Come on dude…. Think for once…. Rest In Peace to man’s father but we’re collateral damage ain’t no mask gonna save us from the things y’all throw out.

[@thomasgladwin2975]

@@mitchweber7868 No Mitch, ffs.

[@oliveribarra5340]

Great stuff love watch your documentary! 😁

[@SniperLogic]

“It’s good. I’m not complaining.” That’s a rare and wonderful American right there!

[@rolandobalaba2570]

I love documentary from philippines 😊😊😊

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

I want Phil’s job. You get a truck and a stick and get paid to sort through the trash for contaminated waist as well as the good stuff you can keep😂😂

[@david_4246]

I like how they only have 1 guy inspecting all that trash 😂

[@TheFreeride588]

Sorry but Phil is an idiot. He said a propane tank blew and lifted up a giant bulldozer. 😂

[@spaghetti9845]

I like that a documentary can make garbage disposal stressful.

[@boostjunkie2320]

those small propane tanks on a grill is explosive enough to level a house. I seen one take a barn down

[@stephenullman4534]

This was an extremely well done documentary 👏. Thank you very much!

[@kreeco1168]

This youtube creator deserve more

[@glenncheatham1320]

That was fascinating.

[@Mackandal-]

At 2:50, "There's no time to WASTE" 🤣

[@fireprint_incinerator]

Congratulations on your new achievement, Li from China, manufacturer of low-temperature magnetic waste thermal decomposition device

[@GingerBreadBlaze]

Somebody has to do it. Same at the backrivers. Thanks for your hard work.

[@justgivenofox9543]

It’s great to see America have a giant area set aside for trash instead of dumping it in the ocean or in another country. I know big landfills like this already exist, but this seems big compared to the rest

[@theobserver9131]

It would be a lot better if we didn't need landfills. There is no such thing as trash. Trash is an imaginary concept used to cover up laziness and greed. All these materials could be processed into useful resources. That "giant area set aside for trash" used to be home for countless animals and life giving vegetation. Now it's a toxic waste land.

[@OmgImAlexis]

It’s not “great to see”. They could be doing what most of the rest of the work is doing which is recycling instead of just burying it. 🤦‍♀️

[@justgivenofox9543]

@@OmgImAlexis out of sight, out of mind. That’s the American way right there

[@a-a-ron4679]

@@OmgImAlexis right. Just like the guy from Pakistan said, landfills in his country are on fire half the time. How do you know what other countries do? You been around the world? To answer your question, yes I have. 2 deployments and many trips in between. The US has some of the most strict laws and regulations when it comes to the environment regarding all industries. Trash, oil and gas, and mining just to name a few. California adds much much more on top of that. Stop trashing, no pun intended, your country my man. If you’ve ever been to other nations for an extended period of time you’d come back home and appreciate everything this nation does. I’ll never understand people who constantly bash this country and compare it to what other countries do or don’t do but have never been to said countries. I’ll never understand why certain people hate or criticize their own country. Smh.

[@younganderson3503]

@@OmgImAlexissays this while drinking a Starbucks drink form a disposable cup she drops in the trash rather than making her own coffee at home in a reusable cup. Lmao Recycling is a last resort effort, reduce and reusing has a much better environmental impact. Truth is most people don’t want to give up their lifestyle of convenience to actually make a difference in the trash they produce.

[@chrisaustin4261]

"If we put more thought into what we throw away, our landfills will last longer." I'm pretty sure the landfills will outlast humanity, the way things are going.

[@eleanoraisyah925]

Look at them working for 20, 30 years. Must be a happy workplace for them.

[@mitchweber7868]

Thinking the same thing. I would love to work there. But they didn't have anyone in the show that was in their 20s or '30s. Probably a pretty good job that everyone wants with good benefits.

[@sachinrv1]

Brilliant doc

[@nathanaelvetters2684]

Everyone needs to see this. It's pathetic that nobody even knows what happens with their trash, to them it just disappears. And so much of it is unnecessary.

[@gregg19809]

Excellent presentation. Very informative.

[@Hacks00145]

Just wow and such a wonderful genius work of engineering 💯💯

[@spoileralert3754]

Very informative and very interesting video.☮️

[@chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

I hauled baked trash out of New York on a flatbed once to a dump in the south. I won't say the state but that was ridiculous and the last time I ever took that load. Plus my trailer was awful after and even after washed several times it was stained and still smelled bad. It had soaked into the wood in the trailer.

[@brigittamaria6248]

Wow...Amazing..👍👍👍

[@ashleyquezada1990]

There should be a doc and a comprehensive science approach to what waste underground is doing to the soil and our food. This process has to have some consequences. This is very impressive even still though.

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

They will mine these dumps for metals one day.

[@stevelinwood8362]

This was INTERESTING!!!!!

[@lauramannyvlogs6675]

How did we as Humans think to produce this much plastic and the only thing we can come up with is “ Let’s dig holes and put it under the ground”

[@TheBigdog868]

As a trucker I can't imagine how many flat tires they get driving around in the trash

[@mosesmh7982]

Tbh i never got a flat tires in the landfill i drive a dump truck in to the landfills to dump dirt never had a problem

[@brandonfields4927]

"big cat," should change his name to, Big Diabetes!

[@_WinterSnow]

So unhealthy. He needs to lose weight!

[@hollywoodundead72]

The state of the world is unbelievable. It's no wonder such an effort is being made to dig in and create a space to survive underground. The future is grim. Corruption just stole the entire future. Bad people the #1 problem

[@estebanbalderas8495]

Thanks!

[@chris26bpm]

That is a so awesome video about the City Landfill its the best

[@trossk]

Jeez. Does every show need some kind of drama? " a tarp roller isn't working!!! The whole operation may be shout down for the ENTIRE CITY!!!!!"

[@simwaduncan777]

Awesome 👍. 🇰🇪🇰🇪👏👏👏

[@derekvandyke5132]

Gotta love the smell at the dump I've taken many loads to the dump with many different trailers I'm a huge contributer

[@cyborgrva4024]

This is were we should throw away all politicians..

[@rogerl8488]

I think all landfills needs to be grinded!! Saves soooo much space an makes it smaller to decompose faster!!!

[@kxp.1496]

Does big cats leave his machine? Only to get water

[@manvith260]

Super cool tech

Interesting Documentary. But watching this is like watching something from Sweden in the 80's. Its so backwards it puts things in perspective how far many EU country's has gotten when it comes to recycling. Where I live we already have separate bins for household trash and food so its sorted before they even pick it up. Also most small towns and all city's have recycling center. I can walk 5 min and drop of Electronics, battery's, Plastics, Paper, Ceramics, Glass, Metals and have them sorted at our local recycling center for free. Doing the "sorting" first rater then at the endpoint (landfill) saves a lot of time and money. What can not be made in to new materials is burned in our Power plants that produces hot water for heating homes, schools and also electricity. I visited one of those plants during my education some 20 years ago. The burnt gases are filtered trough multiple tanks, basically like big showers extracting any toxins out of the exhaust gas before its released to the atmosphere. The ash and pollutants extracted from the water can go to specialized landfills but the reduction in wast for landfills is massive. So even trash is recycled and if its produced using renewable sources then the better, trying to offset CO2 emissions is in everyone's interests. Also Sweden imports other nations trash to use for power generation burning it in a clean way. Getting paid for the fuel and then sell the power, win win while putting less pollutants in to the air and ground then a landfill. Landfills in Sweden where I live that look like whats shown in this Documentary do no longer exist because its not legal. Anything that can be burnt cant not be put in a land fill since 2002. Anything biological was banned from landfills in 2005. In 2002 we where adding 1.6M tons of wast to landfills in Sweden, now we are adding 50K ton in 2018 with a population of 10M people. We produce about 480Kg (1057 lbs) per person per year of of household wast so 4.5M tons, 50K tons going to landfill is a big improvement over 1.6M tons 20 years ago. Also its naive to think that future generations will never dig up a landfill. That has already been done in Sweden, and it had to be sorted and recycled. Landfills gets in the way for new expansions and future projects that the generation that dumped the garbage did not think off. I'm sure that future US citizens will have to deal with that pile of waste at some point, 30-40 years from now or 100 years, a short time really when it comes down to it. But yea this Doc puts things in to perspective for me, very rarely I think we have come fare but on wast handling we seem to be 30-40 years ahead of the US and maybe more on other nations. But we are a small nation so if big nations are so fare behind is scary to think of the consequences long term of this unsuitability.

[@Sajuuk]

But just think of how much fun archeologists a thousand years from now will have sifting through millions of tons of garbage 😉

@@Sajuuk there is always an upside to everything XD

[@bertilsonadam]

this is insane!!!! i think its only in the nordic countries we burn trash for heat or power there is lrge landfills like this in france too...

[@BostonBlues]

bro no offense but you live in Sweden the population is only 10 million 😐 California alone is 4x that many people, and the entire United States is 33x as many people. Please don't compare the two as you can imagine it's alot easier to organize and maintain the trash a country the size of Sweden produces compared to a nation of 330 million people. Keep up man 🤦‍♂️

@@BostonBlues Well with that view your never gonna be sustainable. Its a mater of scale, you have no problems producing the products becoming wast so why would it be a problem dealing with the wast in a modern fashion and not like its 1980's. To me it seems more to be an attitude issue and mater of values. Here everyone knows where the trash is going, from education going back to the 90's for me at least we where told where send wast for recycling. In this video people seems clueless to what happens to the trash. I also see this from videos in NY where people trow things in the trash that we where recycling 30+ years ago. Excuses wont get anywhere the way I see it but well every nation has to solve its problems but I don buy excuses.

[@bekind4642]

Great content as usual but the commentator drove me nuts! I swear he used to do all the Thomas the Train shows.

[@scoobydo446]

That’s what I thought Thomas the tank engine

[@jacob9538]

"my heart's right here, it's in the trash." mine too, bud.

[@mboyer68]

The guy said it smells like a man who hasn't showered in a while. I disagree. Landfills don't smell like India, they have their own unique scent. I worked cleaning up housing sites when I was a teenager, and I'd have to dump at the landfill twice a day. After about a week, everything smelled like the landfill. I distinctly remember opening a bottle of coca cola and it smelled like the landfill. It was so weird.

[@chickey333]

As any landfill guru would say... that's just the smell of money.

[@dizzywow]

Maybe you need a shower.

[@BostonBlues]

I agree I never minded the smell of a landfill, it doesn't even smell like trash at that point anymore lol I go there twice a day to dump out

[@thomasinnis2370]

I think the methane power generation system is the most underrated part of this documentary.

[@LillyMelody01]

Learn something new every day

[@devencadriel2361]

I work at a landfill (not gonna say the name), and I too have to check for stuff as a traffic director. But the best thing about it, is that I get a lot of free stuff that is still valuable. I always ask myself, why do people throw away very good stuff that's worth keeping still. No seriously, what I do at the landfill, directing traffic and checking for unwanted items that's not allowed is what I love to do.

[@trashyraccoon2615]

I would give anything to scavenge at a landfill. I hate how they treat it like a high security area. People should be allowed to pick if they want

[@CheckPoint702]

"Radiation will ruin the land for hundreds of years"... Hiroshima: "Hold my Saki"

[@FFF_Trucking]

Sometimes I deliver to these places and the stench stays with you forever

[@harrisonbush7547]

This is a really sophisticated landfill. Whenever I go to the landfill we dump in one area not 2. And there aren't any animals there to chase animals out of the place.

[@NewLife-qj9mx]

I remember living in a subdivision where recycling was mandatory and seeing the garbage truck dump both trash cans into it

[@killermikenault9012]

Imagine the civilizations of the past had similar dumps and that is how the oil wells formed. Tens of Thousands of years and trash back to a mine able resource

[@lilmane1070]

- it takes tens of millions of years for oil to form, not tens of thousands - humans only came about 0.3 million years ago - we were hunter gatherers then. Even after we started agriculture (only ~0.01 million years ago), the amount of waste humans produced (even as recently as 100 years ago) wouldn’t even be visible on a graph if you put it next to how much we make now. - and that’s still agricultural humans; hunter gatherers’ made far less still - and neither group collected their trash together in one spot like we do today - even our landfills today are like a couple hundred feet below the surface, but with how deep stuff needs to be to form into oil 10s of millions of years later, our landfills are basically at surface level in comparison - at the end of the day, we know that the vast majority of oil was from algae and plankton

[@stevenlindhorst7579]

@@lilmane1070 yeah plastic is only about 100 years old and wasn't used in mass for decades after that so everything we used to put in landfills was biodegradable

[@Chrysler300str8Evil]

Hello everyone I worked as a water truck operator doing dust control for puente hills landfill in ca which was off the 60 freeway and the 605 freeway 13130 Crossroads Pkwy S, City of Industry, CA 91746 I work there three and a half years I seen all kinds of things from VHS tapes & players to Playboys to hustler magazines to boats being crushed by the dozers never to be seen again I've seen beds I've seen wallets IDs credit cards jewelry dildos the list goes on in the landfill you see everything and anything and by the end of the day it does not look like a landfill it all gets buried and I had to spray the chemicals onto it once every couple layers that they would do I would spray the chemicals on there and then you keep dust control down and then when that didn't need to be done I had to go around and pick up trash along the fence cause of the wind blowing it or the birds would pick it up and move into a different spot and get caught so I had to clean up for me it didn't smell as bad as some say but it was a very good experience I got to see it firsthand & this being now 24 years ago I did that I was driving from Ontario Ca to the City of industry to do that job at that time if I remember right I was getting paid $16.50 an hour and I would have to say 80% of the time I got an hour over pay because we had to make sure that the landfill at the end of the night was covered up and sprayed with whatever chemicals they gave us to spray and at that time my friend's dad had already been working there maybe 15 plus years his name was Jesse otto if I remember right and he had a son named Martin and a son named Jesse and he had a daughter but I don't remember her daughter's name but they lived in Ontario also but he was an OG there already and then he retired from there GREAT DOCUMENTARY the title is just as great free documentary keep up the good work about good topics homeless drug use recycling the list goes on but keep making these documentaries great work 5-25-22

[@jacquelinetrimm3274]

Thankfully there is a job where you get to help out with the environment. 💪👍 Sincerely Jacqueline Trimm Syme Hamblen Morrison family bloodline. 🙏🌹🕊❤

[@syahdanalwirf2.]

Wow 👍

[@claudehighsmith7311]

That's a sad way to deal with garbage how about recycling. I did some construction at Dade County Rescorces and Recycling center in Florida it's amazing what they do and the massive amount of money they generate. One would think there would be more plants like that across the country.

[@mitchweber7868]

It's always fascinated me about how much money you could make if you had the infrastructure to recycle garbage💰💰💰

[@squarecrab]

I'm one of the mechanics that fixes machines at this particular landfill (on occasion). Most of the waste that comes to this site comes from a transfer station first. They sort through the trash to pull recyclables out before it goes into the ground.

[@a-a-ron4679]

Sad? Yeah we should recycle more but why is this sad? We can’t recycle everything. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Everything we do is “bad” landfills, oil and gas, etc yet it’s vital to our civilization and way of life. You use all this, complain that’s it’s “sad”, yet offer zero solutions of your own. Just criticize and complain. Amazing

[@michaelrenner509]

The best ideal thing is to build a incinerator. They create so much power and will power all nearby towns.